Redwood City,
CA – Parallax Media Ventures, a leading animation storytelling production
company, today announced that it is developing the classic American comic strip,
‘B.C.’ by John Hart Studios as an animated feature film. The team’s pitch reel,
featuring storyboard images and concept paintings, will be available for
private viewing in May. The feature is a 4-quadrant title Parallax is shoring
up for early 2021 release, and currently meeting with potential partners and
financiers.

Parallax and Hart Studios will attend the Licensing Expo May 22-24 in Las
Vegas to discuss this project with interested parties. To schedule a time to
meet and view the pitch reel, please email Kevin Richardson at [email protected]

Founded in 2015, Parallax Media
Ventures is led by Kevin Richardson, a former executive and senior producer at Nickelodeon,
Electronic Arts and Mattel Interactive, and on feature films for leading domestic
firms as LucasFilms, Hyperion, Colossal; and abroad at Wang Films Taiwan, MS
Films Germany, KingKey Animation China, and most recently Studio Climb Malaysia.
Kevin initially became interested in ‘B.C.’ in high school when he produced an
animated short on the building of Stonehenge with characters inspired by the
strip.

“Today,
Johnny Hart’s grandsons Mason and Mick are the wizards behind the daily comic
strip,” said Patti Hart of John Hart Studios. “Using their grandfather’s playbook, they take
inspiration from trends, headlines, and the politics du-jour and spin them into
timeless commentaries and general silliness.” Perri Hart, B.C. letterer and
colorist added, “We are super excited about seeing B.C. continue its journey onto
the big screen. It’s been a great pleasure working with Parallax Media
Ventures. Kevin has put together an amazing team and their level of
professionalism continues to impress us.”

“B.C. is an American classic
like apple pie and baseball,” said Richardson. “60 years strong, the daily strip
runs in over 800 North American newspapers - newspapers with a reach of 64.4
million readers. This gives us a tremendous connection to the fans, and allows
us to expand B.C. to an on-screen and off-screen experience. Mason, Mick, Patti,
and Perri at Hart Studios have helped us understand and blow out the characters
– right down to what they eat for breakfast! Thanks to the time-tested and
quirky ensemble, there’s no shortage of fun material to work with.”

The Parallax ‘B.C.’ team has collectively
worked on 18 animated features, with an aggregate $10 billion USD box office.

The Parallax ‘B.C.’ team includes:

·Julia Lundman – Julia
Lundman is a concept illustrator with over twenty years of experience in the
entertainment business. Classically trained, she started her career in
commercial animation, art directing commercials and animated shorts, one of
which, “Stubble Trubble” was nominated for an Academy Award in 1999. After
moving to San Francisco in 2000, she moved into concept art and illustration
for games, concept art for Lego, and served as Art Director on Disney’s
animated series, “Whisker Haven Tales”, produced at Ghostbot. She was honored
to be a finalist in the ILM Art Station worldwide contest in 2015 for key frame
concept art.

·Claus Dzalakowski, art direction/look
development – based in Australia Claus recently opened a facility in India for
animation and FX work. Claus has worked on animated features and TV in over 10
countries and has held key positions on several Nickelodeon productions such as
Bubbleguppies.

·Mike Cachuela - Story Artist - 30 years of
story development experience including classics Nightmare Before Christmas, Toy
Story, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille. Instrumental in setting up animation
feature studios like LAIKA where he co-directed Coraline.

·Jim Beihold – story consultant – more than
16 features in 30 years, including work on Tarzan; The Little Mermaid, and The
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

·Jaikumar Balasubramanian – animation pipe
and pre-viz – one of India's best animation directors and CG pipeline and FX
masters, he has worked for Technicolor, Nickelodeon, Disney, and Sony
Imageworks.

ABOUT PARALLAX MEDIA VENTURES

Parallax Media Ventures is a boutique global animation
storytelling production studio that focuses on early-stage independent feature
film properties. Parallax currently has several properties in development, and
is comprised of some of the leading animation experts in the industry. Based in
Redwood City, California, the company operates using a distributed, virtual,
team model. Parallax Media Ventures can be found on the Web at www.parallaxmedia.ventures and on Twitter at @ParallaxMV

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EDITOR’S
NOTE: If you would like a photograph of Kevin Richardson, founder of Parallax
Media Ventures; Parallax Media Ventures team members, or concept art images from
‘B.C. – BACK TO CIVILIZATION’ please contact Kevin Richardson at [email protected]
or +1-510-366-8562.

ABOUT CREATORS

Creators is a publishing and syndication house -- the third-largest syndicate in the United States. Since 1987, it has syndicated comic strips, puzzles, editorial cartoons and columns to publications worldwide. Founded on the belief that artists should own the rights to their work, Creators endures as a forward-thinking force in the media industry. Visit Creators online at www.creators.com.